identical twins, different universities, overlapping recruitments...

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by WhiteDaisy128

Well gosh, I feel bad for starting the doubt. Like others have said, I do find the thread highly entertaining and I do hope it continues...I just have my doubts on the reality of it all. All of the "old money" that I know would never post anything flaunting themselves like this girl has.

You didn't really start it, I think you were just the first one to post it. Someone else would have (I was thinking about it) eventually.

[MaggieXi]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

I guess I'm in the group that doesn't care if she's BSing. At the end of the day, she's provided some mildly entertaining reading, and it doesn't change the course of the universe if it really didn't happen. I'm not going to cry if she stops, but I've got 4 more hours here at work to get through and am appreciative for the occasional distraction.


PS...I love how at least half of the visible readers at any given time today have been reading this thread.

I totally don't care if its a true story or not. I read these stories to break up my day when I have a lot of data input which is really really boring. I need the distraction!

[recruitment]

just a few comments and observations. honestly, i am personally very flattered that you could think i could actually make up this thread. i would never in a "ookazillion" (isn't that your term alpha frog?) years try to do something like this again... i am far too busy and attempting to do something like this takes far too much time and effort if you want to try and give details and yet make it so that people might possibly enjoy it. in reality... it is an occupational hazard. i am far, far too analytical, i no longer have that creative abililty to have come up with something as unique as this. i just do not think that way any longer... nor does syd. this is our lives and it is the only way i know how to actually explain it. thank you, i really am flattered.

but just a few points... please actually read some of the posts, i truly believe many of you just "skimmed through them" and did not really read them and certainly did not grasp several things as a few of them were quite long and took a great deal of time to compose. i addressed many of the >flames< you are now shooting at me in the thread... actually read it, please. so, the analytical side of me wants to make a few points and i have the right to indulge myself. i certainly do not feel the need to defend myself and certainly never justify myself. i am confident in who i am and am very comfortable with that. so, ladies... here are just a few points i would like to emphasize... it is an intense day at work and i do not have time so i am taking my lunch to post this. i won't "bother" you with "pulp fiction" any longer. i thought it might be interesting because at least i thought it was so different than most recruitments i have read about on this board.

* at no point did i ever say when we went through recruitment.
* at no point have i ever said where we lived.
* at no point have i ever said where either of us went to college
* and certainly, most certainly... i know the advantages of being
discrete... i have never, never mentioned our mother's name.
she would be mortified. i have no idea how anyone could possibly
google a name that has never been posted. can someone explain that
to me?
* also please read and note that i have never even my own name...
i personally know the value of being discrete. google that one!
* at no point have i mentioned our ages... other than i specifically told
jocelyn that i was a grown woman when commenting about... jeans.
* i have never mentioned if either syd or i are even married.
* i have never mentioned if either of us have a family or any children.
* also please read the first paragraph at the top of my recuitment thread
where i specifically mention our work. please see post number 35.
* i most certainly never said i bought "bratz" jeans. i was somewhat
amused and yet irritated over that "discovery." unless you are
petite... you absolutely have no clue how hard it is to buy
clothes that properly fit without being altered. i specifically said
that no grown woman would ever wear those jeans. that has to
be the worst... thank you to the wonderful ladies who understood.
* i am sorry but i have never read the 'sweet valley twins'... so i have
no personal point of reference as to what they are or who they are
other than what has been posted on here.
* jocelyn just posted about her former user name a few months ago. it
is not hard to remember a distinctive name like that and such a sweet lady... and her posts, at least in my opinion, reflect a truly compassionate and very nice lady.
* with a reception like this... and with so many wonderful ladies who
have personally left gc... why would i not lurk? i have a life.
* again, i not not nearly creative enough to have made up someone
like callie. she literally grew up in the middle of "no where" on
thousands of acres her family owned. i was not making fun of her.
she graduated with less than fifty people from high school at the most.
she is still one of my dearest and most trusted friends. yes, she
was "rough around the edges" when she first came, all she had
socially done was rodeo... and that ladies is an entirely different
world! sorority life for callie was the most wonderful thing that could
have ever happened to her.
* yes, like several of the posters... most of the pmns at my university
wore hose. it was not mandatory... but they were certainly noticed.
i still choose to wear hose on a daily basis... it just goes with the
territory of my profession.
* i said we had a "very dressy" recruitment and i meant it. that was my
style... and every woman should have their own style. tre chic!
* recruitment infractions? please read that again. i specifically said
we were lined up by height and that lyndsay soon joined us. i also tried
to keep this from being even more confusing, so i determined not to clutter it with yet other names and people. i never said how many pmns were in any of our conversations while visiting at "meet and greets."
* a negative image of a sorority woman... you know that is really
a subjective and severe judgment. many ladies on this board know
the exact pressure i was under. most of you have no concept of an
exactly social world and living under a microscope. i most certainly feel
i personally serve my sorority well. to each their own.
* finally, my use of terms. am i supposed to change my vocabulary
and "dumb it down" for "supposedly educated" college women?
many of those are regional terms and many of those references
were specifically words that "proper young ladies" used and were
taught to use. southern women understand that...
* skiing... give me a break! purses, colors, designers, movies,
characters and made-up names? skiing is a passion and something
we have done all of our lives and still continue to enjoy. i would
leave you in the powder! honestly...

again, i truly thank you. honestly, i really am honored. i would love to be that creative. i would love to work at home. i have never even ventured to think that i could be a "fiction writer." however, when one has to critically read hundreds of pages each day at work... and you are liable if you miss any nuance... that tends to make one not enjoy reading for pleasure. i always bring work home with me. gc was one of the few "decadent indulgences" that i had enjoyed in a hectic and very busy life. it brought back many fond memories. however... the snarky women and immaturity and nastiness that is now rampant on gc just reminds me of work! truly... i sincerely am flattered that you perceive i could come up with something like this thread. so post and pm away. i really do not care. the sun will rise in the morning and my life will continue... and i love my life. i love my family... i am truly blessed. i feel sorry for those of you who must criticize everything and pick everything to death. how truly sad. and to think... i thought i "over analzed" things... ladies, i have nothing on you, you are professional experts... i curtsey to you.

cheers!

[Drolefille]

Flounce post!

[Soliloquy]

Don't let them get to you, some people on here have nothing better to do then be mean and judgemental. As a lurker, you should now how snarky some people on this board can be for absolutely no reason whatsover.

You still have plenty of people wanting to read your tale, so please, continue.

[tld221]

dear recruitment,

while i could sit here and pick apart your most recent post. i just have one question:











ARE YOU GONNA FINISH POSTING THE FRIGGIN STORY ALREADY?

sincerely,
tld221
esteemed GC member since Dec 2003

[KSUViolet06]

Some of us are at work and bored. Please continue.

[sageofages]

Being analyzed is a GC hazard...! Think of how JK Rowling must feel with her works being over thought....I am truly enjoying your wit in reporting your adventures...and beg you PLEASE to continue.

[petals]

Originally Posted by sageofages

Think of how JK Rowling must feel with her works being over thought....I am truly enjoying your wit in reporting your adventures...and beg you PLEASE to continue.

Co-sign on that one!

[tld221]

Originally Posted by sageofages

Being analyzed is a GC hazard...! Think of how JK Rowling must feel with her works being over thought....I am truly enjoying your wit in reporting your adventures...and beg you PLEASE to continue.

hold the hell on - we're comparing "recruitment" to JK Rowling??

that's not even apples to oranges. that's like apples to... orangutans. WTF?

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by recruitment

"ookazillion" (isn't that your term alpha frog?)

That's the word!

[Hopeful_Bubbles]

Originally Posted by recruitment

* again, i not not nearly creative enough to have made up someone
like callie. she literally grew up in the middle of "no where" on
thousands of acres her family owned. i was not making fun of her.
she graduated with less than fifty people from high school at the most.
she is still one of my dearest and most trusted friends. yes, she
was "rough around the edges" when she first came, all she had
socially done was rodeo... and that ladies is an entirely different
world! sorority like for callie was the most wonderful thing that could
have ever happened to her.

My grew up in the middle of nowhere, graduated in a class of 30 (at the top though ), rodeoing self begs to differ somehow. But anyways I was enjoying the story even though I wouldn't have pegged it to be written by an editor. On with the story!

[AlwaysSAI]

Okay, so I didn't come from "old money" I came from "no money" so it all sounds like a fantasy to me. I never would have dreamed of clothing that intricately planned. That's the only reason I doubted it.

I would really like to hear the rest of the story. Don't be discouraged! It's not the first time people have had "sock puppets" and it makes people doubtful to believe some things.

[ufpiphi]

While the debate is sure to rage on concerning the authenticity of this thread (which is of no real concern to me, I thought it was entertaining in the least), I do wish to address another topic.

Perhaps this is out of line or an inappropriate place to do so but I feel compelled to defend "Country Callie". I was happy to see a retraction of sorts in recuitment's last post and the assurance that you were not making fun of her. If you were rushing at a true southern school, you would not be hard pressed to find sorority women (and PNMs) from similiar backgrounds. Land ownership, farming and ranching are still highly respected in small southern towns.

My sister and I are blessed to have been raised on our family's cattle and citrus ranch. I myself am a former high school rodeo competitor, a veteran of the show cattle arena and while home for the summer, partake in daily farm activities like training young horses or patching fence. I do not believe we are socially inepet or uncultured as a result of our upbringing. In fact, I believe that in general, "farm kids" tend to possess manners, morals and modesty that far surpass that of their urban and suburban counterparts. They are able to successfuly navigate large universities (for example, UF's undergraduate enrollement is more than ten-fold the population of our small town).

For "Country Callie "to have been from a weathly family with large landholdings and achieve admission into a large state school (which I am trusting imposed at least mediocre academic standards), I highly doubt that she is as uncouth as you describe. You were right in pointing out how much unlike you she was, chances are "Country Callie" probably saw the same differences and merely said "ain't that nice" (Please tell me there are southern women on this board who appreciate that very phrase).

I apologize for the deviation from the topic, however sterotypes about women from farming or ranching backgrounds angers me as much as those about sorority women.

[amanda6035]

Originally Posted by ufpiphi

You were right in pointing out how much unlike you she was, chances are "Country Callie" probably saw the same differences and merely said "ain't that nice" (Please tell me there are southern women on this board who appreciate that very phrase).

Ha.
Haha. Love it.